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Your favorite albums that, objectively, are total disasters

41 by H-GM_Archive
Rotten Tanx wrote:
H-GM wrote:This thing:

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Dude! You think higher production values or better musicianship would make this record more palatable?

Didn't they/he release an EP of someone taking a shit? Is this album a step down from that?


Higher production values? Yes

Better musicianship? No

When I listen to it I'm always struck by how it would sound a million times better if I was experiencing it live, or it was documented more appropriately. Maybe that's just it, though, you had to be there.

I have no idea about the EP, but am very interested. Thanks for the heads up!

Your favorite albums that, objectively, are total disasters

42 by Don_Archive
DregsInTheCrowd wrote: the first two Royal Trux albums, and maybe all of them.


Definitely Twin Infinitives. I can't think of a better record to fit what I think meets the criteria for disaster here. Almost completely inscrutable (OK, completely), awe-inspiring, and just plain fucked up. Junkies bangin' junk, wow.
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Your favorite albums that, objectively, are total disasters

44 by SecondEdition_Archive
Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:Does Wowee Zowee fit this description?


I don't think so. If memory serves, Wowee Zowee was the one where they sprawled out a bit all over the place, right? That was just them trying different styles out. (I don't remember it too well, though, so your definitions may be different than mine.)

When I say "disaster," I mean: either a record in an artist's discography that sticks out like a sore thumb because it seems they had no idea what they were doing at the time (like Pink Floyd's Ummagumma, which is a double album of early, post-Syd Barrett live recordings and studio fuckaround), or records that are just totally fucked up (like Throbbing Gristle's Second Annual Report).
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Your favorite albums that, objectively, are total disasters

45 by Sowley_Archive
See, I always saw Wowee Zowee as the record where Pavement came together and started working as a BAND. That it was the maybe the only album they did that didn't sound like "SM/Spiral First, Band Second." That the songs were formed out of group ideas... maybe I'm wrong and maybe the disaster element is why i love it over all the other Pavement records? I just sense more camaraderie on that record...
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Your favorite albums that, objectively, are total disasters

49 by elisha wiesner_Archive
what about the velvet underground live at max's kansas city?

i love it but it was never meant to be an album. just recorded by a fan with a tape recorder. they played different sets then they had been playing for a while including a bunch of stuff that 16 year old drummer billy yule had never played before. there's that guy talking throughout the whole thing (get me a double pernod). lou reed quit the band right after they got offstage. all in all a strange night but a pretty cool album.

Your favorite albums that, objectively, are total disasters

50 by SecondEdition_Archive
I'd also nominate Marvin Gaye's Here, My Dear. It didn't sell well, and it was seventy-plus minutes of Marvin in a drug-induced haze verbally mutilating his ex-wife over, at first listen, seemingly interchangeable disco grooves. Prime disaster material.
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